Consensus on seat sharing in Maharashtra elections; BJP gets 144, Sena 126: Report

With less than a month to go for the polls, the ruling alliance came to an understanding after an internal meeting of the BJP.

Maharashta minister asks flood-affected people to 'shut up' when they demanded relief

Chandrakant Patil was addressing a group in Shirol and Kolhapur and Sangli in Western Maharashtra are the worst flood-affected districts.

He claimed people have made up their mind to give his government a fresh mandate.

He also said that opposition was unable to understand that EVM is a machine, which is unable to cast votes on its own.

He said the BJP, the Sena and allied parties would like to 'break the record of winning maximum number of seats in the state polls.'

Fadnavis is serving his fourth term as the CM of Maharashtra as of 2014, becoming second-youngest CM the state ever had after Sharad Pawar.

Fadnavis along with his cabinet minister Chandrakant Patil held a state-level meeting on Kharif season preparations.

The centre in June last year junked the 15-year old practice of revising rates every fortnight, and introduced daily revisions.

He alleged that Mr Fadnavis has always been providing false figures, but the economic survey has proven that he was making false statements.

The Supreme Court, on Monday, restored the ban on the sale of firecrackers till November 1, in Delhi.